Reconceptualizing personality: Producing individuality by defining the personal self

Individuality and the Group: Advances in Social Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 11-36

  Turner, John C ^a   Reynolds, Katherine J ^a   Haslam, S Alexander ^b   Veenstra, Kristine E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446211946.n2     Document Type: Chapter

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